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▪ I. deˈpraving, vbl. n.
[f. deprave v. + -ing1.]
The action of the verb deprave in various senses.
a1500Cuckow & Night. xxxv, Thereof cometh..anger and envie, Depraving, shame, untrust, and jelousie. 1548Act 1 & 2 Edw. VI, c. i. §2 If any manner of person..shall preache, declare or speake any thinge in the derogacion or depravinge of the saide Booke [of Common Prayer]. 1583Babington Commandm. ix. (1637) 87 Telling and hearing the depravings of the wicked. 1703J. Barrett Analecta 48 It would be a manifest depraving of that sacred Text..to turn it thus.
▪ II. deˈpraving, ppl. a.
[-ing2.]
That depraves; † defaming, traducing (obs.).
1606Holland Sueton. 152 Some depraving backe-friendes of hers. 1686W. de Britaine Hum. Prud. vi. 29 A clear Soul, like a Castle, against all the Artillery of depraving Spirits, is impregnable. 1881Athenæum 24 Dec. 847/2 The story has not a depraving tendency.
Hence deˈpravingly adv.
1665J. Webb Stone-Heng (1725) 71 His Words..as this Doctor..both inelegantly and depravingly renders them. |